Mark Le Fanu, Author at Catholic Herald

Mark Le Fanu

Film: Hollywood veterans serve up a dog’s dinner

December 07, 2017

The civilised trappings of a dinner party or a meal in a high-class restaurant provide a fertile setting for drama. The characters are immediately under our gaze, contriving, at first, to be nice or at least polite to each other. The food looks inviting on the table, while the talk, with any luck, is going

Film: The man who injected colour into Italian film

July 20, 2017

Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life Cert PG, 90 mins, ★★★) There are, or there were, so many good classic Italian cinematographers that it is difficult, sometimes, for the layman to keep track of them. Those Aldos for example: don’t we need to distinguish Aldo Tonti from GR Aldo? Both were

Film: Love, lies and trauma in the aftermath of war

May 11, 2017

It seems only yesterday that we were commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Three years on, and it is now the terrible last stages of the conflict that we are invited to look back to, as we contemplate the sometimes permanent psychological damage inflicted on the survivors and their families. François

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